Events

Subject: DPC-An Opportunity to Revitalise MoD Structures and Role

Speaker: Major General Umong Sethi, AVSM, VSM (Retd), Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS)

Venue: Seminar Hall 1

About The Speaker

Nearly four decades of service with Indian Army afforded the veteran hands on experience of command in diverse operationally active areas. He had hands on experience in dealing with security challenges that deepened his understanding of the nuances of employing various organs of the State in pursuit of national objectives. Experiences with security establishments of Russia and Seven Central Asian Republics during a stint with EURASIA Division of Ministry of External Affairs gave an insight into complexity of international relations and utility of military diplomacy. Exposure to the procurement and equipment management cycles, production agencies, quality assurance organisation and financial management enriched his understanding of immense challenges in these fields.

Post retirement, made forays into the academic world as Director Strategic Plans of a University. He was the founding Chairperson of a ‘Not for profit organisation’ to empower youth in Chattisgarh. Actively contributes to the discourse on ‘National Security’, ‘Smart & Safe cities’, ‘Smart Borders’ and ‘Skilling’. He is a Distinguished Fellow with Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS).

The 51st Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) will be held on 11th July 2018 at 1130 hours at the IDSA Auditorium. Individual invitations to the Life Members and Members have already been mailed. However, any Life member and Member who may not have received the same due to any reason may treat this as a notice for the meeting.

Please note that only LIFE MEMBERS AND MEMBERS form the General Body of the Institute.

For any clarification please contact.

Col A K Chugh (Retd)
Assistant Director
Tele: 2671 7983, Extn. 7301
Fax:
26154192 (DG)
26154191 (DDG)
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Venue: Board Room

Chair: Maj. Gen. Alok Deb, Retd. Deputy Director General, IDSA

Head of the Delegation: Mr. Ro Manabe, Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs ( Biography [PDF])

Delegation Members

1. Mr. Ro MANABE, Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs

2. Mr. Shuji YUGE, Director, International Policy Division　　　　　　　

3. Mr. Itsuki SUGIHARA, Deputy Director, International Policy Division

4. Ms. Machiko KUGA , Assistant for director, International Policy Division

5. Mr. Takashi NONOGUCHI, Deputy Director, International Cooperation Division

6. Capt. Shusuke TAKAHASHI, Chief of International Policy Planning Section,　

7. Maj Ryuichi MOROTOMI, Assistant for director, International Policy Planning Section

Venue: Board Room

Topic: China’s Maritime Silk Route and Shifting World order: An American Perspective

This lecture aims to look at China’s recent accomplishments along its Maritime Silk Route in the Indian Ocean region and beyond. In particular, it will look at some of its recent developments in Djibouti, in addition to its maritime efforts in the Mediterranean basin. Additionally, it will look at some of China’s larger maritime aims and ambitions from a Eurasian perspective.

About the Speaker

GEOFFREY F. GRESH is Department Head of International Security Studies and Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), National Defense University in

Washington, D.C. He has also served as CISA’s Director of the South and Central Asia Security

Studies Program. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and was the recipient of a Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship. He also received a U.S. Fulbright-Hays Grant to teach international relations at Salahaddin University in Erbil, Iraq. He has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Istanbul, Turkey and a Presidential Scholarship at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Most recently, he was named as a U.S.-Japan Foundation Leadership Fellow, an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College in London, and as a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Gulf Security and the U.S. Military: Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing (Stanford University Press, 2015), editor of Eurasia’s Maritime Rise and Global Security: From the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic (Palgrave, 2018) and co-editor of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State (Routledge, 2018). His research has also appeared in such scholarly or peer reviewed publications as World Affairs Journal, Gulf Affairs, Sociology of Islam, Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Iran and the Caucasus, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Insight Turkey, Al-Nakhlah, and Foreign Policy. He has a working command of French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish. He received a Ph.D. in International Relations and MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.